The Prisoner

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The Prisoner
The Prisoner was initially composed to be incorporated into the Gondal adventure. This Gondal adventure was a progression of stories around a fanciful island that Emily Bronte dealt with her more youthful sister Anne. Apparently, the ballads and stories that they incorporated into this accumulation were loaded with energetic love, political interest, detainment, resistance, outcast, and war (Bronte, 1465). Bronte makes a courageous woman out of the detainee who endures, she has been and will continue to, completely conquer her jail with the assistance of divine power. God will discharge the detainee from her limits and legitimizes her wrongful detainment through death.
The speaker in third verse a young fellow who was just visiting the prison of his father declares that God should excuse his childhood and also pardon his reckless tongue as he starts to relate his ridiculing of the detainee (1466). However, the detainee understands that her being detained is vile and believes that God also perceives it too which makes her to exceptionally remain quiet. Consequently, through this, we can acknowledge that the speaker is fairly terrifying and agitated as he tries to disclose this especially when he is thinking back. More so, when he realizes that the prisoner’s sentence was unjust and even God would not approve it, he notices that he would be bound with the chains of the blame since the prisoner will eventually be discharged from the imprisonment because she did not deserve it.

Nevertheless, the prisoner believes that there is indeed nothing that the guard could do that would swap for her. This is because she places her trust in no one but God, that it is only him who can reestablish her life as well as that of the family she had lost. She also believes that the guard cannot likewise impart no dread in her and the two men will remain insignificant to her as long as they cannot also offer her any deliverance. Additionally, the prisoner says that she consistently encounters dreams that she would never have envisioned. These dreams are a torment to her, but she also says that she draws her strength from the same dreams since through them she can see her future (1468).
In conclusion, Bronte tries to bring out the notion that is portrayed mostly in religion that everything that happens is dependent on God. Religiously, it is believed that one has to endure a significant level of suffering on earth for one to be rewarded in heaven forever. She is also trying to nullify the belief that women are weak by presenting a woman that is strong despite the suffering that she is enduring.
Work Cited
Bronte, Emily. “The prisoner.” The Norton anthology of English literature (1846): 1465-1466.